From the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog : In many large organizations, network configuration and Active Directory Domain Services are managed separately from Configuration Manager. Changes to the network topology or AD structure must be...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted a couple of fantastic articles discussing Configuration Manager 2012 Distribution Points, PXE Services and Boot Image management so if you missed these you’ll definitely want to stop by and give them a...

Hi everyone, the OS Deployment PM team has posted another great blog about PXE Setup and Boot Image Management. Here is an excerpt from their intro. “In a previous post, I talked a little about the changes to the distribution point and integration...

As per the first post in this series, this article documents a demo that we did at MMS last week. In this demo, I showed how we could automatically add a newly deployed server into the DPM protection cycle. This is a very simple demo, with only...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration...

Hi everyone We unveiled the next version of Opalis at MMS last week, which will be known as System Center Orchestrator. We also showed for the first time some early builds and did a short demo using Orchestrator. Well, for those of you who could...

I am going to document and publish all the Opalis demos that I did at MMS, providing a description of what the scenario was and details on how I built it. The idea is to help you understand the process we go through, and give you ideas. You will always...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to announce the release of the German and Chinese Simplified Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 builds. For German users, the International Client Pack (ICP) with the German (DE-DE) client is also available. German...

Marcel Zehner over at SCSMFAQ.ch has recently built and made available a new Opalis integration pack for SCSM! For now it includes three new workflow activities: Auto-close Resolved Incidents Auto-close Resolved Problem Export Unsealed Management Packs...

Here’s an FYI on a new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Symptoms When running System Center Operations Manager 2007, the Operations Manager SDK Service may fail with the following error: Event...

Just an FYI on another new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Summary When a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM) agent is updated to Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) or Cumulative Update...

This one’s really more of a tip that you need to configure the URL in the Opalis Integration Server – Client Console before you can use the Operator Console button, but just in case you forget and see the "No Operator Console URL configured"...

Just an FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning for SCOM 2007: ===== Symptoms The Microsoft Message Queuing 2003 Management Pack (MSMQ 2003 MP) for Operations Manager 2007 R2, Version 6.0.6615.0, has an error in the script "QueueSendTestMessage...

Just an FYI on a new AVIcode Knowledge Base article we published this morning: ===== Symptoms During the installation of the AVIcode 5.6 SEViewer, the following warning is generated when testing the connection to the database: " Specified <SEViewerDBName>...

At the Microsoft Management Summit on Tuesday, 3/22/11, Brad Anderson announced a new capability in System Center 2012 called Project Codename “Concero”. Before I actually talk about what it is, let me first talk about what the word “Concero”...

Easy as pie. Like taking candy from a baby. A walk in the park. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
You hear those phrases all the time. But how often do you hear them applied to installing server applications in a datacenter? Sure, maybe you have some...

This week we are extremely pleased to release Beta 2 of Configuration Manager 2012. We thought it would be helpful to provide a technical introduction to the product, and share with you some places and programs you can use to get your hands on it...

When using a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 server, after import the Management Pack for Windows 2008 Print Servers you may find that it’s only discovering Print Servers for Windows 2008 and not for Windows 2008 R2 servers. So what’s going on...

I have just posted an article over on the Nexus blog, with information regarding the new capability pillars and information about what we used to refer to as Opalis vNext … now officially named System Center Orchestrator! Please go take a read There will...

I am very excited to be able to post this article, welcoming System Center Orchestrator to the System Center suite! As was communicated by Brad Anderson in Tuesday’s MMS keynote and on the Nexus news bulletin , System Center Orchestrator is the official...

Microsoft is proud to announce the Release Candidate of System Center Advisor, formerly known as Microsoft codename “Atlanta.”
This new cloud service enables customers to assess the configuration of their servers so they can proactively...